Palmer Woods is Detroit’s most architecturally significant residential neighborhood. Platted in 1915 and built out through the 1920s and 30s, the neighborhood contains homes by Albert Kahn, Marcus Burrowes, and Frank Lloyd Wright, whose Turkel House sits on Seven Mile Road as one of the few Wright commissions in the city. The streets curve through mature canopy, and the homes — Tudor, Georgian, Mediterranean, prairie — sit on lots large enough to give each one breathing room.

The neighborhood has been federally designated a historic district since 1983. That status carries both protection and responsibility: alterations to street-facing exteriors require review, and stewardship of these homes is an active rather than passive proposition.